Growing vehicle use and congestion externalities have led many to consider alternative congestion pricing mechanisms … taxation in reducing congestion by considering a natural experiment created by the progressive January 1, 2012 Chicago parking … percent aggregate reduction in vehicle trips. It is concluded that parking taxes can help mitigate congestion externalities …

In this paper we explore the possible impact of urban congestion on agglomeration economies for a cross-section set of … size and congestion. We use population in each city in the 19th and early 20th century as instruments for current city size … previous research in the region. When congestion is included in the estimation, we find that agglomeration economies are …

implementation appeals to the pressing need to reduce traffic congestion and pollution. Their effectiveness however, remains … traffic congestion of Lima's Pico y Placa driving restriction policy introduced in 2019. We find small improvements in traffic … congestion for the policy's directly targeted areas. However, those improvements are offset by time and spatial spillovers in the …

relationship between congestion and the optimal second-best policy, on the one hand, and congestion and the long run growth rate …